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| Swastika on Minoan pottery from Crete, from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kretominoisches_Hakenkreuz_asb_2004_PICT3431.JPG |
For a fun afternoon, try reading this TvTropes article about how evolving perspectives can lead to hilarious misunderstandings. I recommend the part where several institutions refused to change their names/remove their iconography because of one unfortunate ideology appropriating its likeness. I personally espouse the opinion that we need to study these kinds of situations in order to show respect to the people we are interacting with, but aside from that (and the comedy that results from failing to observe this), they really have no use. So people everywhere should learn to lighten up.
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